Sunday morning does tend to be a bit shorter than most mornings, but I managed to get my usual crew of characters their attendance allowance. I also was able to get the "ten fully-rebated spins of the Loot Wheel" sorted out - it's handy to have multiple accounts that all have a few aeria points, as the deal was ten such spins per account. I got rather more mana stealers and strong medicines than I'd have liked, and absolutely no pet jaguar or pet polar bear collars, but I did get some experience boosters, skill point boosters, heaven stones, platinum blessed irises, power potions, and so on, which got downloaded onto Cariae, Auzura, and in one case Katar characters. MistressDomina on Cariae, my merchant character there, got most of the local goodies moved across to her, and so is just about ready to try and do some fund-raising at some point.
After lunch, it seemed a good idea to have Barbarienne and Keerella head for the Tomb of Theos on Cariae-4 for a two-hour session, to include the two o'clock to three o'clock, UK time, "dungeon time" boosted hour. The square anubis spear man room was already being used by a pair of night shadows, so Barbarienne took up the same position as yesterday, on the first corner of the corridor after that. Keerella did have to battle one sphinx fighter that followed them, but otherwise she just stood in the corner, occasionally feeding SkrappY the "freshly baked bread" that such pets need.
In the first hour, Barbarienne killed 39 anubis spear men, using 39 experience boosters, 28 of them before the "dungeon time" hour began, and added just 12.97%, but the second hour was a bit better, with 48 boosters used, 39 inside "dungeon time", getting Barb another 19.91%...figures that do rather indicate that the place's condition did vary, though a total of 32.88% across the two hours does seem about right. Keerella just added 1.27%, while SkrappY added 3.20%, and Barb's drake got 2120 pet points. Barb and Kee each gained 8 skill points, helped along by the fact that yesterday's "Turbo", which had apparently been 75% extra skill exp, was still running.
That 75% extra skill exp meant that, for the last part of the afternoon, it seemed worth taking MistressSabina to the beast flyers on Auzura-4, so she and RedRackham went there together. The horse buffs Sabina applied before they left Merac Caron lasted just long enough for Red to kill that death mask soldier rather more quickly than usual; he then unequipped his sword and set to work to do some pet-levelling with the death mask lancer.
Unfortunately for MistressSabina, the beast flyers in the middle of the third floor were being fought by a knight, so she just fought the four in a side room and, when the end of her half hour attendance allowance was approaching, logged out rather than get a 3% addition to tomorrow's experience totals. She just had time to spin the Lacarette wheel, though, and got the star prize - fifteen golden Lacarette tokens, enough for five spins of the top type of course... a 360 aeria point value.
That tiny session meant that MistressSabina added 1.10%,11 skill points, and 155 pet points.
The evening session was another outing for MistressDomina, Kaerella and the polar bear cub, to the Tomb of Theos on Auzura-5. Things didn't get off to a very good start, a rogue called SHOSTFACE, in the BulgarianElite guild, was busy repeatedly luring big mobs onto the people in the corridor, with the usual loss of life. Annoyingly, one of the times I was just too slow to unequip the polar bear cub, so Kaerella had to go back to Dratan City and spend, at level 35, 1,013,200 gold to get him "unsealed". At least a poly does regenerate its own full health fairly quickly.
Things did settle down though, and MistressDomina was as usual pulling in the screaming zombies one by one for her lower-level accomplices to beat on, and doing her best to capture any zombies that passed in hot pursuit of someone who had been standing slightly too far forward. A bit later the level 102 mage Elfnastysfriend arrived - I suppose someone had got in touch with her about the way SHOSTFACE had been acting, and she did her best to calm things down, though Shost's command of English seemed a bit variable. She stayed around for a while, doing roughly what MD was doing, so that was fun - she didn't put on her gamesage glow, or "pull rank" in any way, and as usual was friendly and approachable. She is actually in the same guild as Ratel, Twisted.
Not long after Elfnastysfriend left, however, somebody else pulled the same trick of luring masses of screaming zombies and diseased grey mummies onto us. Kaerella's computer froze, so that I was unable to take off the poly, and I was so preoccupied with trying to keep the zombies away from her, and him, and generally dealing with as many as MD could, that I didn't notice that MD's own pet was in peril. earlier it had got down to 7 health - but this time, while I thought I'd unequipped it in time, when I came to put it back on found that I hadn't.
So for the last few minutes MistressDomina didn't have Kaerella there, after I'd finally managed to close the program, and she didn't have her drake either. Still, the fun continued, until most of us decided it was time to leave the Tomb, and head for the Quiz Room. As it had been a combat party this time, Kaerella had just added 3.00%, plus 8 skill points, while the polar bear cub was up by 31.96%. MistressDomina earned 10.10%, along with 9 skill points and 1879 pet points.
There was just time before the Quiz to get MistressDomina's drake "unsealed" too, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that a level 42 drake is cheaper to revive than a poly seven levels lower - the bill came to 506,268 gold.
Kaerella was joined as usual by my merchant mage MistressDomino in the Quiz Room; Ratel was there too. The questions were the usual ones, so it all went smoothly, though there were reports of a problem on one server, in the forum shoutbox afterwards. I think it turned out to be someone who had just been following the majority of other people in the room, and was surprised when, after question 21, everyone had respawned in town. Which is what usually happens, as after all the prizes are handed out, people deliberately choose the wrong answer then, to leave the Quiz Room.
The after-Quiz lag was as severe as usual, and as no gamesages were around, I had to reassure the usual people concerned about the "account is already in use" error message that is was just lag. "
After the Sunday Quiz we always get heavy lag, which makes logging back in difficult for a few minutes. The trick is to never click to accept the "Timed Out" messages, just wait and things will eventually load. If you do click "timed out", and try again, the game thinks you are logged in already and you get the "already logged in" message, but it's just a glitch, don't worry
", as my ready-made message puts it.
I got chatting in the shoutbox, and also chatting on the website's in-built messenger service with Luko, or rather Renez I think, from Norcaine's busier times. If I ever decide to try the game he and some others migrated to, "Aion", I should go to "NA V server (a)", apparently, to get in touch. And I'd enjoy it a lot, "apart from the ganking"...
I did get RedRackham back to the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail for another hour or so, anyway, and the drake reached level 41 at last... so it's probably time to see which character of mine on Auzura deserves a drake upgrade. As it had last night, the forum shoutbox got taken over by some youngsters from, apparently, Holland, spamming, pasting in the entire forum page, and being rude, so I kept clear...luckily there were gamesages around by then to do the necessary deleting.
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